620 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 
Мосхр NEAR DooLeY Ferry, HEMPSTEAD COUNTY, ARK. 
In sight from Dooley Ferry, on property belonging to Judge J. M. Hanegan, 
of Hope, Ark., is a mound much worn and washed, and having a large excavation 
in its upper part, the work of previous diggers. It is hard to say what the original 
shape of the mound has been. Its present height is about 7 feet, its diameter 85 
feet. No sign of bone was seen where the former digging had been, nor was any- 
thing observed indicating the presence of an aboriginal site on the surface of the 
adjacent field. Some digging in the remaining part of the mound showed clay of a 
raw, red appearance. The investigation was not pressed. 
MOUNDS ON THE CRENSHAW PLACE, MILLER County, ARK. 
The Crenshaw Place, of which Mr. William Nichol, of Pine Bluff, Ark., is the 
owner, has a considerable reputation for aboriginal relics found there, especially 
after the great flood which swept over Red river valley in 1908. 
This plantation was in use for pasturage at the time of our visit, so that surface 
debris from midden sites was less evident than otherwise it might have been. 
Nevertheless in places were broken pottery, flint pebbles, and a few arrowheads. 
On the place are six mounds, shown in the plan (Fig. 122), designated by letters 
for greater convenience in description. 
MOUND A. 
Mound A, oblong with a summit-plateau in the center of which is a large tree, 
is about 10 feet in height. It present outline is much impaired, but probably it 
once was square. Its present basal diameter is 150 feet, approximately. The 
summit-plateau, however, is 80 feet in diameter N. and S., and but 52 feet E. and W. 
The mound yielded no indication of having been used for purposes other than dom- 
iciliary. The digging, however, was not carried to an extent to determine the 
matter, 
Мосхо В. 
Mound В, about 5.5 feet in height, was furrowed by rain in places. Irregu- 
larly circular as to the base, its diameter was about 85 feet. It was composed of a 
mixture of clay and sand, in which the clay greatly predominated. About 3 feet 
from the surface this material was so hard that a pick was needed to remove it. 
Under such conditions one can imagine the state in which earthenware in it was 
recovered. This mound was fairly riddled with trial-holes, some of which, coming 
upon burials, were greatly enlarged. 
Five burials were encountered (Nos. 1 to 5, inclusive). 
Burial Хо. 1. This burial, the skeleton of an adult at full length on the back, 
heading N., lay at a depth of slightly more than 2 feet. The bones were badly 
decayed, as were all in this mound, none being in a condition to save. With the 
burial were two vessels of earthenware. 
